Friday, December 29, 2006

At the (End-of-Year) Buzzer!My Annual New Year's Hot/Not List

What's out with 2006? What's in for 2007? Thanks to the folks at Deadspin for publishing my annual "What's Hot, What's Not" List for the new year, maintaining my streak through the 21st century. Here's the link.

Some of my favorites:

Free agent2006: Daisuke Matsuzaka2007: Bill Simmons

Monday Night Football gimmick2006: Tony K.2007: Tiki

Courtside Groupie2006: Britney Spears2007: Carrie Underwood

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ports city2006: Pittsburgh2007: Las Vegas

Jersey2006: Titans No. 10 (Young)2007: Nuggets No. 3 (Iverson)

Human mascot2006: Jason McElwain2007: Rory Fitzpatrick

Oh, Just STFU Already2006: Michael Irvin2007: Joe Buck

Cancellation2006: The Daily Quickie2007: Quite Frankly

Click here to read the rest. (Sorry for the freaky formatting.) And, for the first time in Hot/Not List history, use the Comments sections to suggest your own!

Forget phasing out ESPN.com. What about saying sayonara to ESPN altogether? Just like bloggers and some big boys (Yahoo, AOL, etc.) has replaced worldwideleader.com pretty quickly, NFLN already is killing them in football. (I really feel sorry for you people who can't substitute ESPN with Total Access. I really, really do.)

And thanks Dan for your hard work. You're better in the blogosphere. If ESPN won't let you curse every now and then, they don't deserve you.

I wonder what guys like Berman and Ley, who've been there almost all the way, think of what ESPN has become....yeah, they're richer and actually famous....but do they like the direction the network has gone in?

Hurray SEC. We need Georgia to finish pulling off this game against Va Tech. That, combined with Kentucky's whupping of Clemson and (hopefully) wins by UT, LSU, and Arkansas, could cement the SEC's reputation this season and relieve at least the 'prove the SEC were what we thought they were' sort of pressure.

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